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Hermione Lee's vivid biography of one of theatre's leading playwrights.

The Iranian director’s politically-charged Palme d'Or-winning revenge thriller asks nuanced questions about the nature of morality, trauma, and oppression.

A frequent collaborator and friend reflects on the entwined life and work of an era-defining English dramatist, whose brilliance masked a secret sorrow.

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

State-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and melt your heart

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue

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Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88

Sir Tom Stoppard had a remarkable rise to the top of the cultural world and leaves behind an astonishing legacy of work

‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’ Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025 https://t.co/4KcTYwF8jw

We are devastated to hear of the death of Tom Stoppard.  As a corner stone of the National Theatre for 50 years, Tom's influence on British theatre has been simply immense.

The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that looked at an implausible arcadia, an impossible utopia and affecting notions of home

The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Peter Shaffer's Amadeus isn't factually sound, but in Steppenwolf's stirring production, directed by Robert Falls, that hardly matters.

AMADEUS at Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a lively and sprawling production of Peter Shaffer’s play. Director Robert Falls, the recently retired former Goodman Theatre Artistic Director, makes his Ste...

東京都美術館（上野公園）が2026年の展覧会スケジュールを発表しました。 2026年度は、東京都美術館開館100周年として、「スウェーデン絵画北欧の光、日常のかがやき」「アンドリュー・ワイエス展」「都美セレクション グル

As they launch their 10th film together, the actor and director look back on how their stellar careers have progressed in tandem, through co-stars’ addictions and Hollywood pressures

Abraham’s gorgeous villainy as the bland court composer eclipsed by Tom Hulce’s nitrogen-voiced genius Mozart is a treat